“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone….” - Audrey Hepburn
I wish all my readers, thinkers, followers, and fellow leaders, the very best
In this new year, 2024! Let’s rock it with all that we have! And remember
No matter your circumstances, how you act and react is ultimately your
Choice. In a world full of choices, why not choose kindness? On watching
The Rose Parade and learning of this movement, I took this moment to join
a movement pledging to treat others with respect, treating others with kindness
As we all deserve, and walking life with compassion. It takes so little to affirm
our choices to be better. Please consider joining with me and others by taking
this pledge and joining with us? Kindness is Free
“Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.” – George Washington (1783)
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
Exiting To A New Beginning
by Michael Doyle
The alpha and the omega
The beginning and the end
Life's alpha and its omega
Laid bare at the year's beginning and end
God breathes our lives into motion
Whatever the season's emotions
We aim to begin and finish strong
As the church's family remaining strong
We live as one within one community
Within the truth of our sacred family
Walking our story in relationship
As we live out our ultimate worship
Glasses half full or seen as half empty
The outlook depends on our desire to be happy
It is a matter of the blind gaining sight
The realization of spiritual blindness turned right
Spiritual faith comes to heal the wounds of division
As we learn to remain anchored with greater precision
We must stick to principles that are Biblical
As 2024 become increasingly even overly political
We learn it's okay to struggle without hesitation
That as life presses on, it's alright to question
Even Habakkuk ventured into complaints he had to voice
Finding the courage to ask these was the right choice
Promptings and principles touch the depth of our hearts
They have done so since the soul's search from the start
This is the way of God's promises throughout our days
We see this openly if we study and keep a steady gaze
Keeping focus without falling into vapid distraction
Despite how the world's negativity has its attraction
We keep watchful eyes as the world and Word unwrap
Every word in every sentence approach and quietly tap
Us on our shoulders, we carefully decipher the full story
Watching before our eyes, God walks revealing His glory
We press forward into understanding our watchful stand
Until we can follow the meaningful ways of God's commands
Through this struggle we learn to find our way
Each of us walking life as we live through our own days
Watching, looking, and seeking after what God will say
Following in the shadow and light of God's walk in our days
God's traces are sometimes something untraceable
But the paths He gives us to travel are irreplaceable
As we watch from the chosen ramparts of higher elevation
With the good, true, and noble holding our fascination
God honoring in the way we choose to begin our preparations
Keeping earnest and holy, reflective on our holy destination
At first sipping milk and taking tiny baby-step stumbles
We are well-served when we push on past our grumbles
Even in good weather, we keep our eyes on the storms ahead
Being alert, and rooted, we are contemplative without dread
Knowing that we must keep our eyes toward glory and dreams
And not on yesterday's memories, however it seems
Through the fears we've lived and found to be naught but waste
We must keep our eyes open refusing to make judgment in haste
We have learned to keep confident and cautiously with optimism
We learn to walk at last toward our course without pessimism
And now, here it is that, we stand on the precipice of 2024
Brightly alert to keeping our focus on what tomorrow is for
Quietly we confidently tap on this side of Janus' opening door
And we know that we are ready with hope for tomorrow's more
(c) December 31, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.“ – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1775)
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
My Forever Valentine
by Michael Doyle
All the moments of life are lent
Carelessly given and heavenly spent
It's the separation and the loss
That defines what's the boss
Come away with me quietly
Giving your consent spoken and silently
Openly expressed inside your smile
Telling me you'll give me your while
With the love and humor in your eyes
As we stay up to greet the sunrise
Of dreams lived, not just hoped for
It's at your temple, I dare to adore
Your words are whispered like a siren's song
Telling me where it is that I belong
Though it is winter's rain that will fall
My life waits at the beckon of your call
I stay waiting, leaving well enough alone
Knowing tomorrow, we'll be on that phone
And I will always hold that sacred line
Knowing that you're my forever Valentine
(c) December 30, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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“Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!” – William Carney
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